Labour Market

    In coastal Karnataka, the labour problem looks a little different, but the anxiety underneath it is the same. Contractors in Dakshina Kannada, particularly around Mangaluru, told The Times of India that migrant workers from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and West Bengal are no longer arriving in the same numbers as before. The reason […]

    Construction sites are supposed to look like motion. Men moving rebar. Concrete arriving on schedule. Steel is going up one floor at a time. But in Trichy recently, that rhythm slowed down for a reason that had nothing to do with cement, machinery, or approvals. A large number of migrant workers from West […]